NY Mets Monday Morning GM: 3 looming changes that won’t save the season

Two wins in a row is all the New York Mets gave us. They dropped three straight to the Colorado Rockies with the worst of it served on Sunday when they took the Double-L when outscored 6-1.

All of the same problems from the losing streak remain. 40% of their starting staff is a mess and unusable as starters. The bullpen is untrustworthy. The offense…what offense? Someone tells these guys it’s okay to score runs.

The Mets are at a crossroads where changes need to happen in a sense of change for the sake of it. As necessary as they may be, none of these would save the season.

None of these changes will save the Mets season even if they should happen

1) Firing Carlos Mendoza

Carlos Mendoza appears to have survived as Mets manager for another day. How much longer can he possibly last? Even if he’s not at fault, firing the manager is the logical move to shake things up. He’s the one coach who didn’t get thrown into the fire. In retrospect, the Mets probably should have moved on.

Firing the manager won’t directly change how the Mets approach their at-bats, how the pitchers execute, or the talent of the roster. If it has any positive result, firing what appears to be a popular presence in the dugout can guilt the players into taking it personally. Would that actually work, though?

Mendoza doesn't feel like he'll manage the 2027 Mets nor does he feel like a candidate to make it through the entirety of 2026. It's a strange spot with the likeliest outcome being a chance to see what Kai Correa can or cannot do in the role.

2) Removing Devin Williams from the closer’s role

Devin Williams is on everyone’s bad side and he’s far from the biggest issue with this ball club. Getting to the 9th inning with the lead is a challenge. Yeah, the Mets can remove him from the closer’s role. Replace him with whomever you’d like. If the Mets can’t score runs, the closer is irrelevant.

The trouble with Williams this year is the team went so long without a save opportunity that it short-circuited him. It’s not an excuse. He barely got himself into any trouble until landing in the 8th inning versus the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 15 when he hadn’t pitched since April 7.

The Mets haven’t declared Williams out as closer just yet, but one more bad outing and they seem likely to make some sort of switch, possibly riding the hotter hand of Luke Weaver.

3) Releasing or demoting anyone

There isn’t some young sparkplug in Triple-A waiting for a big league call-up. That would’ve been Carson Benge on a different timeline. Instead, we’re left to wonder if any of the minor league free agent signings like Cristian Pache or a rising yet not so dominant slugger like Ryan Clifford might work simply because it’s different.

The Mets already went to the prospect well when they called up Christian Scott for a wild start. It didn’t work. Jonah Tong? It’s worth a try, but it’s not going to make anyone else play better.

The Mets started this phase by DFA’ing Tommy Pham Sunday night and signing veteran Austin Slater. That’s hardly the kind of significant difference that’ll change a thing. Slater hit .174 for the Miami Marlins before his own release.

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